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From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
After 15 years on macOS, I made the leap to Arch Linux using Omarchy. Here's what I discovered about the trade-offs, workflow changes, and why shorter battery life and fan noise haven't sent me back to my MacBook.
I switched my five-year-old MacBook Pro M1 Max for a cheap (comparable) Lenovo ThinkBook 14 G7 ARP (AMD) laptop, running Linux (Arch btw, or better, Omarchy. But that’s something I tackle next, so I have peace of mind if I misconfigure something, like yesterday, when I changed the/etc/sudoers and I couldn’t log in as sudo anymore 😅 (yeah, don’t ask!). What works: Advanced Karabiner keyboard setup, sync files (had to switch to Filen), Obsidian, and my dotfiles with tmux, Neovim and all the good jam.
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